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Old 09-09-2009, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Jhawkalum View Post
Not to be inflammatory, but can you explain why you are disturbed that the author used the word discrimination in the article?
The employee was upholding a store policy. It wasn't as if she actively set out to prevent all autistic individuals from entering the store.

I agree that an apology would be a nice gesture, but calling the store and employee's actions "discrimination" goes too far. There's obviously a reason for those rules.

ETA: I'd say the same thing if the customers were black and the article tossed the word "racism" around.
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